In an update on current trading and confirms its expectations for full-year 2015, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that it is on track to achieve year-on-year revenue growth, with second-half revenue ...
Tags: IQE, epiwafer foundry, Electronics
Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has received two orders for research MBE machines. The Fraunhofer HHI (Heinrich Hertz Institute) in ...
Cadence Design Systems Inc of San Jose, CA, USA has collaborated with Lumerical Solutions Inc of Vancouver, BC, Canada and PhoeniX B.V. of Enschede, The Netherlands to jointly develop an integrated electronic/photonic design automation ...
CEA-Leti and its partners in the European FP7 project PLAT4M today announced they have built three silicon photonics platforms. The four-year project, which launched in 2013, aims at building a European-based supply chain in silicon ...
Tags: Leti, Silicon Photonics
Firecomms Ltd of Cork, Ireland and Tongxiang, China (which manufactures fiber-optic solutions and optical transceivers for communications networks) has launched a range of 5Mb RedLink fiber optic receivers with an extended temperature ...
Tags: Firecomms, Optical transceivers, IGBT driver
Micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti of Grenoble, France and its partners say that they have built three silicon photonics platforms, as they reach the mid-point of the four-year European Union Seventh Framework Program (EU FP7) project ...
Tags: Leti, silicon photonics, STMicroelectronics
ClassOne Technology of Kalispell, MT, USA, which manufactures wet-chemical processing equipment (especially for emerging markets and other cost-conscious users of ≤200mm substrates), has sold a Solstice S8 plating system to semiconductor ...
Tags: ClassOne, TRUMPF, Gold Plating
Appropriately themed “Envision the future of lights” after its mission, the 20th edition of the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition had participants sharing inspirational ideas and innovative technologies. Dialogue of ...
Researchers from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan have created highly flexible, efficient white LEDs with potential use in wearable displays and non-flat surfaces, such as curved and flexible television screens. While the design ...
Tags: Bendable LEDs, flexible LEDs
EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, will host a special session at the 41st Micro and Nano Engineering (MNE 2015) conference--a leading ...
It's hard to escape the positive vibe that is currently circulating within the optics industry. As well as publishing record results in quarter one, many of the industry's big hitters have also published encouraging growth forecasts for ...
Tags: optics industry, cosmetic medical systems, semiconductor tools
A sharp upturn in demand has seen a number of analysts re-think their appraisal of the photovoltaics market in 2010. After the impact of the global credit crunch, which put the brakes on the rapid market expansion witnessed up until 2009, ...
Tags: Photonics Industry, cell prices
An outbreak of cautious optimism in optics and laser markets is fueling the hope that the economic slowdown may be over. Not all vendors are cheerful however, with the order books of some in the materials processing sector continuing to ...
The market for mid-infrared lasers is about to receive a welcome boost from a raft of new medical and military applications. That’s according to a new analyst report from the market research firm Strategies Unlimited, which ...
Tags: mid-infrared lasers, photonics industry, mid-IR region
The German photonics sector will employ 165,000 people in the country by the end of the decade, according to a market and industry study presented by Photonik Forschung Deutschland at the LASER World of Photonics trade show in Munich. ...